SPOILERS FOR DANGANRONPA! TURN AWAY IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED THE GAME/ANIME, THEN PLEASE DO SO BEFORE YOU READ THIS FANFICTION! IF YOU HAVE, THEN PLEASE CONTINUE TO THE NEXT PARAGRAPH!

After watching "Danganronpa: The Animation", I decided to make my own take on the story with three different characters. The problem is, to keep it with 15 students, I had to replace some (you could tell which ones I replaced).

To give you a heads up the three new characters are:

Joshen Murphy: SHSL Comedian

Calolina Nemphray: SHSL Creator

Brycon Zuta: SHSL Therapist

I may make custom free time events for them if I feel like it. Just to keep in spirit.

I do not own Danganronpa or its characters (except for three of the characters in this story). They belong to Spike Chunsoft.

Prologue

Naegi's POV

My name is Makoto Naegi, and to be honest, I couldn't believe my own eyes. The fact that I was standing outside of the greatest high school in the world! Hope's Peak Academy.

This is where the best of the best come to hit the books! Students from all around Japan, no, all around THE WORLD are dying to go here. And it's not that simple, you must be the best at something. But for me, I never really had a special talent. I was accepted because of a lottery, which gave me the title of the SUPER HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL: LUCKSTER. Not the greatest thing to be the master of to be honest.

I wasted no time going into the school gates. But as soon as I stepped inside of the school grounds, I started to feel light headed. And then a few seconds later, I was out like a light.

I later found myself inside a classroom, with my head on the desk. "Oh... My head." I said to myself as I held my forehead. I glanced at the walls to see where I was, but I noticed something; the windows were blocked by iron plates and had screws placed on them. Even though I'm not good with tools, but the screws were put on all over the place, I felt like whoever blocked the windows did a poor job of making them stay on there.

I tried to turn the screws, but they were so tightly in the walls that I slightly hurt my hands trying to loosen them. To no success sadly. I looked at the front of the classroom and saw a leaflet on the podium. And it said this 'Congratulations on enrolling. A new term has begun. A fresh start. This school will become the world you bastards will live in. 8:00. Assembly in the gym. The entrance ceremony starts.'

While I was trying to make sense of the leaflet, I looked up at the clock in the classroom and saw the time was exactly the time on the paper. I was shocked to find out that I was late to the Opening Ceremony. I slid open the door, that lead out into the hallway. It had purple lights that brightened up the hallway, I was worried because of the iron plates blocking the windows that we would just be walking around in the dark.

I started to make my way down the hallway to the gym. It wasn't that far from the class room I woke up in. Inside the same building no less, usually the gym is in a separate building from the classrooms. Hoping I wasn't scalded by everyone there, I walked into the gym. The first thing I saw was fourteen other people in the center. I assumed that these were my class mates, so I decided to ask them a question. "Um, am I too late for the opening ceremony?" Just as I asked that question a boy my age with a button up shirt and camouflage pants moved up in the crowd of students as replied to my question.

"Don't worry, you're just in time! So wait this makes 15 of us I think?" He said asking the question. Joshen Murphy: SHSL COMEDIAN "Man, look at all these people! I've got joke material for days."

As he continued, another person moved up in the crowd. He had a business coat on him, and glasses. He seemed very calm and helpful. "I believe this is everyone here." Brycon Zuta: SHSL THERAPIST "I'm pretty sure whoever's in charge here can explain everything." He said to me.

As Brycon finished another student with red eyes in a white boys school uniform appeared right in front of me. "Aha!" He pointed his finger at me. "The paper said to be here at 8:00! You are a full 50 seconds late!" Kiyotaka Ishimaru: SHSL HALL MONITOR "I'll have to report you to the principle!" I was shocked about how strict he was with policy rules I tried to talk back but he only responded with "No excuses! The only thing that matters is that YOU! ARE! LATE!" I knew it was pointless to talk back so I closed my mouth.

I heard the voice of a girl who talked back to Ishimaru just a few seconds after. She had a bleached color hair, with two giant pony tails that were held by two different pins. A bunny and a red and white colored bow. Her outfit could have made all the guys swoon for her. "OMG! Like, can you just stop with all that school crap?" Junko Enoshima: SHSL FASHIONISTA "It's gonna, like, get on my nerves." Murphy looked back at Junko with an annoyed look and said. "Well, if you didn't want to listen to him, then why'd you even come here?"

In the back of the group, a small girl with orange hair and a green top and skirt raised her hand nervously. "Um... I have a question. Did you wake up in a classroom all by yourself?" "Uh, yeah." I nodded to her. "That's what I thought." Chihoro Fujisaki: SHSL PROGRAMMER "The same thing happened to all of us." She said looking down at the ground.

A girl slightly deep in the crowd with red eyes and two black pigtails that look sort of look like drills. Her outfit wasn't that spectacular; it looks like she was some sort of maid from a mansion. "So I guess that we are prisoners here in this school." Celestia Ludenberg: SHSL GAMBLER Ishimaru looked back at the black haired girl and shouted back at her. "That possibility is unacceptable! There is no way a school, let alone one of this caliber, would do something like that!" Celestia only glanced over at Ishimaru for a second just to respond to him "It's never too late to assume, right?"

A man with a Black drench coat, white tank top, and an admittedly SICK Pompadour glared at the iron plays that barred the windows of the gym. "That weird girl's right, I mean look at all of this stuff." Mondo Oowada: SHSL BIKER "Iron plates, tightly screwed bolts, it's like they're begging us to stay inside here."

"Heh, who knows? Maybe if they're gonna keep us as prisoners, and then they'll auction off our organs." Leon Kuwata: SHSL BASEBALL STAR Zuta quickly smacked him upside the head. "Stop that, you're gonna scare some people." "What the hell man! Are you fuckin' critizicing my joke!?" Leon shouted at him. Murphy walked up to him and replied back with "No, he's critizicing your language. Seriously, do I have to put soap in your mouth?"

A girl slightly shorter than Murphy walked up to him, she was carrying a sketchbook with a pencil case and had a barrette on her head, she also wore a slightly different version of Murphy's outfit. "C'mon, lighten up dude!" Calolina Nemphray: SHSL CREATOR "He was trying to make a joke." Nemphray said to Murphy as he put her barrette on his head. He slowly took it off and showed slight annoyance towards her. "We'll then his joke SUCKED!" Murphy shouted as loud as he could.

A large muscular girl who was standing next to Kate looked towards the commotion of the inner crowd and said. "Do you think they might be testing us? Seeing if we can keep our sanity in a place like this?" Sakura Oogami: SHSL MARTIAL ARTIST Zuta Looked back at her and replied "Maybe, studies have shown that claustrophobia does have some nasty effects on people who are afraid of it."

I then started looking around at everyone they were mostly having conversations with each other. I glanced upon one girl who looked like a bookworm, once she noticed that I was looking at her she freaked out. "Ah! Why is he looking at me in that way?" Toko Fukawa: SHSL WRITING PRODIGY "Oh, sorry, I wasn't looking at you in that way, uh." I quickly responded back to assure her I wasn't giving her the wrong idea. She glanced away and mumbled to herself. "He probably thinks I'm the ugliest person in the world!"

"He's not the only one." I glanced a bit to the left and saw a blonde haired man with glasses and clothes of an aristocrat. Byakuya Togami: SHSL HEIR He then glanced in my direction. "Do you want my autograph or something?" "Oh uh, sorry." I apologized to him and walked away.

I then saw a long white haired girl who seemed she was deep in thought. Like she was examining our situation. Kyoko Kirigiri: SHSL ? She glanced over towards me and asked "Do you need something?" "Uh... No, no, I'm good." I sighed as I backed away from her. Murphy slid towards Kirigiri and said "Looks like he bombed his first impressions on you." She ignored him and walked away. "Can't take a joke, huh."

Embarrassed about how I made my first impressions to one of my classmates, I walked away sighing at my awkward introduction. Then I heard a voice. "Excuse me, are you Makoto Naegi?" I looked up to the person in front of me. A girl with blue hair stood in front of me. She wore a sailor's uniform with a blue skirt, dark blue thigh socks, and three hair clips that separated her bangs. I remembered the girl's name "Maizono?" I said looking at her in the eye. Sayaka Maizono: SHSL IDOL "Oh thank goodness, there is someone here I recognize!" I was shocked at what she said. "Wait, hold on. You remember me?" I replied to her, I noticed that her responses were very simple, she smiled at me and then responded with what she said next. "Well of course I do silly! We went to the same middle school for three years!" I started to become embarrassed just being around her. "I-I can't believe you're actually talking to me! It's just that you were so popular, and I was the exact opposite." I said point my fingers at myself. Maizono in response to what I just said, she then put both hands to her mouth and replied "Did I come off as a total jerk? I'm sorry." She then covered her face like she was about to cry. "Ah! I'm the one who should be sorry!" I bowed to her quickly in response. She giggled a bit and uncovered her smiling face. "I'm just kidding!" I played along with her and responded "Fine, I take it back!"

Just as I said that I felt an arm wrap around my shoulder. "Hey guys what's with all the laughter over here? Someone tell a joke or something." Murphy said, he then noticed Maizono and gasped at her appearance. "Makoto! You finally found yourself a girlfriend!?" He then started sobbing on my sobbing. "I've known you for a whole 15 minutes, and you're already dating. You've grown up so fast."

As Murphy was sobbing on my shoulder and Maizono was looking bewildered at what she's seeing in front of her we heard a voice. "Are you three done having a reunion?" All three of us cranked our heads towards where we heard the voice to see who it was. It was Togami. "Because if you are, we have a more important matter to discuss. Mainly the fact that there is no sign of any faculty or students in this school besides us." Togami looked at the podium on the stage. "J-just as Celestia said, we're prisoners." Fukawa said as she nervously bit her thumb.

We were all looking around for any signs if teachers here until Junko said one thing "You know the only thing that would have made this a bit more bearable, is if I had my cellphone. I mean like, what the hell?" We all checked our pockets. Front pockets, back pockets, shirt pockets. She was right we didn't have our cellphones with us.

"Relax guys, I'm pretty sure they'll give us our cellphones back as soon as the introduction ceremony is over." Murphy reassured us that everything will be alright. Then we heard a bell ring and then we heard sound of a voice on an intercom. It sounded like the exact opposite of us, cheerful and excited while we were terrified and fearful.

"Testing! Testing! Mike check! One! Two! Is everyone hearing me clearly? Well then I would like to introduce myself." We then all turned to the podium on the stage. And what we saw was something that none of us could have imagined. A black and white bear jumped up from behind the podium then landed on top of it. It had the exact same voice as the one on the intercom system.

"Greetings students, and no, I am not a teddy bear. I am Monokuma! The wonderful headmaster of this academy!" All of us were shocked at the appearance of the headmaster. But our responses were all different.

"If I remember, one of my patients had a nightmare like this" Zuta said calm and collective as if this 'Monokuma' was a normal person. "Don't mistake me from your patience's delusion. Because this is real life! Anyways, good morning everyone!"

Ishimaru bowed to the mechanical bear in reply. "Good morning sir!" Nemphray was even more shocked at Ishimaru's response. "You're actually bowing to him? Are you crazy?" "It's appropriate to respect the headmaster of the academy!" Ishimaru yelled back at her.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, we all know I'm a big deal." Monokuma said after Ishimaru bowed to him. "Anyway, allow me to welcome you 15, to your new living quarters! And before you're wondering how long you all will be staying here, if I had to estimate, I'd say, THE REST OF YOUR LIVES!"

We were all shocked at Monokuma recent statement. "Oops, did I say *new* living quarters, I meant *permanent* living quarters!" He noticed our shocked faces and replied "Oh what's the matter, why do you guys look so distraught?"

Our responses ranged from "What about our families?" to "You sick bastard!". Monokuma on the other hand was totally oblivious to our rejection of the thought of living here for the rest of our lives.

Then he had an idea.

"Actually, there is one way to get out of this school." Monokuma, announced. The entire class was curious at this point but they also seemed determined. As if whatever it is they have to do to leave, they would. "Please, enlighten us about this way to leave." Byakuya demanded to the stuffed bear. Monokuma's response shocked us all out of our determination.

"Good, old-fashioned, murder!"

Murphy, who was standing next to me at this point, did a spit take with a water bottle he just found. "You're joking, right?" He asked in shock. "Nope! If ya wanna leave, then ya gotta kill someone! Stabbing, Slicing, Strangling, Drowning, Burning, Electrocution, if you know magic? Then just conjure something up!"

We all lost the determination to leave. Just the thought of killing someone to escape, then the bear started talking again. "What's the problem? I'm letting you guys get away with murder! What's wrong with that?" Just them after Monokuma finished, Oowada stood in front of him. "Wait just a minute!" He said. "Sorry, but I've kept a lot of promises in my life, and killing to get outa here is NOT one of them!" Monokuma was mainly ignoring Oowada's rant. "Heh, I bet all of those promises were about stupid things." We could all feel Oowada's rage building with every little insult that Monokuma said, then with one final one. He snapped.

"Just like that piece of bread on your head!"

Oowada then picked up Monokuma by his neck and said. "Dammit! If you don't shut your trap, I'll turn you into fluff!" Monokuma then began to start squirming. "Grrrr! It's against the rules to harm the headmaster!" Monokuma then started to beep. Then it started to get faster. "Uh… guys, why is it making that noise?" Oowada asked us. Kirigiri then shouted towards the biker "Toss it! Now!" Oowada turned towards her and asked. "Huh? Why?" As if he didn't know what was going to happen. "JUST THROW IT!" Kirigiri shouted out of character.

Oowada did as Kirigiri told him. As Monokuma flew through the air, the beeping increased in speed. Then it suddenly exploded, we were all shocked at what happened. "Jesus! That thing could've taken off my face!" Oowada said cringing. Fujisaki walked up to the cringing Oowada and asked him. "I-is the teddy bear dead?" In response to what Fujisaki we heard Monokuma's voice. "I told you, I'M MONOKUMA!" We looked back at the podium, and Monokuma jumped up from behind it. "Well then now that the opening ceremony is over, LET'S SEE SOME KILLING!" The talking bear then jumped back behind the podium.

Me and the other 14 students looked around the room. Trying to see if anyone was planning on killing anybody. But what we were expecting from this school was just a school where all the students were set on hitting the books right as the year started, not a school that taught only despair.

15/15 Students Remain.